[Zope3-dev] Re: ZCML bad ;-)

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Tue Jan 24 04:03:29 EST 2006


Shane Hathaway wrote:
>> FWIW, I still hate ZCML for the following reasons:
> 
> Everyone seems to agree on the direction suggested here:
> 
> http://www.z3lab.org/sections/blogs/philipp-weitershausen/2005_12_14_zcml-needs-to-do-less 

Indeed, while I strongly agree with all of this, I think it's orthagonal 
to the point I was trying to make...

> There's only one thing that bothers me about that article: it calls the 
> people who complain about ZCML either "Python purists" or "die-hard Zope 
> 2 coders", when you and I are neither. 

Indeed ;-)

My view comes purely from requiring the number of languages that need to 
be known to use Zope be as few as possible to make things easier on us 
all...

> We are Zope evangelists, and our 
> concern is that the current ZCML is a significant barrier for others who 
> want to learn and adopt Zope.

Yup :-)

cheers,

Chris

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